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Those of you who are artists, or who consider themselves as creative, is your self-confidence burdened by the feeling that you're a fraud, only copying works that have been invented before?
Don't worry, no one has ever had a truly novel idea. Even Thomas Edison.
Everything is a Remix, a short series by filmmaker Kirby Ferguson, presents influence and appropiation as an integral part of human creativity. Spanning from Led Zeppelin to George Lucas and from Johannes Gutenberg to Xerox, the series explains in exhausting detail how progress is based on mutations and combinations of pre-existing works.
Another important video in the theme is Nate Harrison's story about a drum beat called Amen Break, certainly the most remixed sample in music history, which tells several essential details of musical development after the 70's and insights about the vague border between appropiation and creation.
In the words of Alex Kozinski, "Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new".


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LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI/CNN) - Police are searching for an Indiana couple wanted on neglect charges amid accusations they abandoned their 8-year-old adopted daughter.
After a five-year investigation, authorities on Wednesday filed charges against Michael and Kristine Barnett. They reportedly adopted a girl from Ukraine in 2010.
Officials say the couple set the girl up in an apartment in Lafayette and then moved to Canada.
They also say the couple changed the girl's legal age from 8 to 22 years old and told people she had a form of dwarfism.
Police are asking for the public's help.
A police source says the girl's neighbors stepped in to help care for her. They are also cooperating with the investigation.
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